Putting on my hat as a product person, I distilled his requirements into 2 user workflows:

He also added another point about quickly searching for an existing note in order to edit it. One of the key strengths of notes apps is that they are made for just this kind of quick capture.”

I can’t imagine this happening with Google Docs, or other heavy-duty text editing apps.

This is a common daily occurrence for photos, but not so much for ideas and insights. “My most fundamental test of a knowledge capture app is whether, if you’re walking down the street and a brilliant (or wacky) idea suddenly pops into your mind, you will actually pull out your phone and capture it. Deal Breaker #1: Quick capture and editing (Yes) With that said, let’s get started with the first deal breaker of Tiago’s. I will make the assumption that the equivalent of a note in Evernote is a Page in Notion.Īlready, you can tell this means Notion allows you greater granularity of control over the content you create compared to Evernote. For the purposes of the evaluation, when Tiago talks about a note, he’s largely using the paradigm of Evernote. You want a checkbox? That’s another type of block. You want a bullet point? That’s a type of block. There are about 9 different types of blocks in Notion. Whereas in Notion, the fundamental building blocks are blocks.Įach block can be a separate Page, Table (which behaves like AirTable), or just a paragraph. In Evernote, the fundamental building blocks are notes. Perhaps I will write a separate follow-up article to explain my own preferences after this.įundamental Differences between Evernote and Notionīefore I go into the evaluation of Notion, I want to point out that Notion has a different paradigm from Evernote. However, in this article, I will adopt Tiago’s criteria and structure accordingly. Bear in mind, I have a difference in opinion with Tiago about which points are deal-breakers and must have. I will follow the same structure and answer each one point by point. Capturing and syncing across multiple devices Scales to thousands of notes without performance lag Tiago broke down his 15 requirements into 3 categories. I promised Tiago I would expand into a longer version of that thread with greater elaboration, so here it is. So I wrote a long twitter thread replying to his question point by point. I also ended up paying for Evernote and Notion to unlock more features. Over the past 10 months or so, I went from using Evernote, to Quiver, and now Notion. Fig 1: Tweet about Choosing a Notes app requirements Tiago then tweeted out asking for help evaluating popular notes apps based on his criteria. He recently wrote a blog post where he lists out point by point what he considers must-haves and nice-to-have features when selecting a notes application. This post was originally published by Kim Sia on įor productivity topics, I follow Tiago Forte (blog here, twitter He has a course that I have taken before called Building A Second Brain (BASB). It covers the use of modern toolsets such as Todoist and Evernote to augment your human brain, leading to a higher performance boost in the modern information-dense economy.

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